Chapter 123: R-98's Attack (Subscription Requested)
Since the end of World War II, there have been four incidents of accidental hits of passenger planes around the world, two times Israel shot down Swedish and Libyan passenger planes, once the Bulgarian Air Force shot down Israeli passenger planes, and once that China shot down British passenger planes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the poles under the Iron Curtain, there is no precedent for directly shooting down an airliner.
Moreover, when they first came, they had already passed through the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviets and directly crossed the airspace of the other side, and the other side did not react. Now, if you cross over from Sakhalin, you shouldn't have much of a problem.
Of the entire crew, only the captain and the chief pilot knew the truth of the matter, and they were instructed by US intelligence agencies to conduct a reconnaissance of the Soviet Union.
The United States no longer dares to use the Blackbird reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter the Soviet airspace, and it wants to know some of the Soviets' deployments, especially recently, the Soviets' military movements in the Far East have been somewhat frequent, and the Americans are a little worried that if the Soviets deploy a large number of land forces on Sakhalin Island, they may be able to conduct a cross-sea operation, cross the short Soya Strait, and kill directly from Sakhalin Island to Hokkaido.
Did the Soviets dare? Maybe.
In order to determine the military deployment of the Soviets, it was necessary to conduct a reconnaissance, but the Blackbird reconnaissance plane did not dare to use it, so the Americans thought of using civilian airliners.
Historically, there have been many incidents in which civil airliners have been used to conduct reconnaissance, and although it is to serve the national interest, it has risked the lives of all the people on the plane. It is a very shameless act to use the morality of the other party to bind the other party.
Especially. The people on the airliner were completely unaware, and it was the shameless top brass who had put them in a crisis.
Although this is an ordinary civil airliner. However, before joining Korean Air, this Boeing 747 was in service with the South Korean Air Force, and under the belly, it has long been refitted, and has sensitive optical cameras, infrared cameras and other equipment that can take clear pictures of the ground.
They needed to fly over Sakhalin, and they needed to take pictures of it for the rear departments.
The captain and the pilot are two. They are all former personnel who served in the Korean Air Force, and in addition to being employees of Korean Air, they are often subject to orders from above.
This time, after refueling from Alaskie's Anchorage Airport, after takeoff, there was a deviation in the flight direction, but it was very tacit. The civil aviation guidance station on the way did not indicate at all, and after takeoff, it deviated from the course five degrees, just enough to fly over the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island of the Soviets.
The captain is very stable, and this is not the first time he has performed this kind of thing. His psychological quality is very good, but the main driver does not have such a lot of confidence.
"Captain. Just now I seem to hear a tomming sound outside, is it not the two Soviets fighter planes. Shelling at us, huh? The driver continued.
At this time, there were only two of them in the cabin, and the main pilot was a little weak.
"Stupid. Didn't you also spend time in the Air Force? The captain said: "The night flight fighters at night, the shells used are all high-explosive shells and tracer bullet chains, which are used to indicate the trajectory. ”
Before entering civil aviation, the captain flew the F-86, and he was considered an old pilot, but in fact, he did not participate in night flights, and only top pilots would fly at night. I've never seen a pig run, but I've always eaten pork, right? The captain still knows this.
He knew about it just now when the other side intercepted it, and he also knew that there were two Soviet planes watching, but he didn't know that the Soviet planes had indeed fired warning cannons just now, but the cannonballs of the cannons really didn't have tracer shells!
He was very confident that those two planes had been flying with him for so long, and they hadn't fired at him yet, so they must have confirmed that this was a lost passenger plane! In that case, then you have been lost in the past!
After flying this mission, he will have enough salary to go to Hawaii to buy a piece of land, and live there for the rest of his life.
Little did he know that this would be his last flight.
"Boom!" Just then, suddenly, there was a loud roar outside.
With this roar, on the instrument panel in front of the cabin, the engine fire alarm report light flashed one after another.
"Oops!" The driver suddenly shouted: "Engine, we have lost the number one engine!" ”
If he had stood outside at this time, he would have stopped shouting, and he would have fallen to his knees tremblingly.
With the explosion of the missile, with the Boeing 747 being hit, the most famous incident in the Cold War that shot down a South Korean airliner occurred, and the most mysterious air crash in the Cold War confrontation known as the 311 air crash occurred.
And in the whole incident, as the most important party, Captain Osipovich was ordered to open fire and shoot down the invading large target, without any mistakes, the only mistake was that Captain Osipovich used the R-98 missile!
The R-98, the Western designation AA-3 "Anaab", began to equip the former Soviet Air Force in 1963, which was the first medium-range air-to-air missile in the USSR with interchangeable semi-active radar and infrared seeker with a range of twenty-six kilometers.
(With the technology of the sixties, with a range of more than ten kilometers, it can almost be called a medium-range air-to-air missile.) )
This kind of bomb adopts a canard aerodynamic shape layout, with four small cut tip triangle control rudder surfaces mounted at the rear of the warhead, four large cut tip triangle wings mounted at the rear of the projectile body, and each of the four pieces of the rear edge of the bullet wing with a roll stabilizer. Outwardly, more attention is paid to maneuverability, although in fact this missile is intended for NATO bombers.
And the warhead of such a missile, with a charge of forty kilograms, is also the consistent style of the USSR, and the warhead must be large! It doesn't matter if the range is closer! Being able to put a forty-kilogram warhead on a missile with a total weight of two hundred and sixty kilograms was also something only the Soviets could do.
Now, it's because of this huge warhead! If Captain Osipovich was using an R-60 missile, the most he would have done was to damage one of the opponent's engines and force the other side to make a forced landing, but now, Captain Osipovich first used the R-98, and when this missile caught up with the engine and exploded, the warhead not only damaged the engine, but also knocked out the wings of this half of the engine.
The wing was burning, losing an engine, losing half of the wing, the aerodynamic performance of the Boeing 747 was completely destroyed in an instant, and under the action of lift, the fuselage began to roll in the direction of half of the wing at an incredible speed, and at the same time, the nose went down and began to fall. (To be continued.) )
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